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NOTES FROM THE QUEEN
CITY.
TORONTO, April 2eth, 1892. -
Along streets lined with thousands who,
of whatever political stripe, had delighted
to harm' him in life, the body of the late
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie was borne from
his late residenee in St. Alban's Street to
the Union Station, on Wednesday afternoon
of last week and put on the funeral train
for Sarnia, the former home of tbe dead
statesman. Flags on all the public buildings
floated at half-mast, and the tolling of the
city bells kept ever present to all the misfor-
tune the country had sustained. The ser-
vice held, at the house was private, but upon
the arrival of the cortege at Jarvis Street
Baptist Church, a tremendous crowd was
found already seated to bear the service COD -
ciliated by Mr. Mackenzie's pastor, the Rev.
Dr.Thomas,which was more than impressive.
Dr. Thomas' sermon, in the judgment of
many, was the most pathetically eloquent
ever given at a Toronto funeral service. In
it he said : Many of his [Mr. Mackenzie's]
colleagues in the halls of the young nation
had more than matched him in the flow of
brilliant rhetoric and pure Anglo-Saxon,
but none could rival the power he possessed
of swaying the masses to his will by sheer
force of his hard common sense and .single -
uses of purpose. He was a man who
loved Canada He had been true to the
Queen, to the country of his adoption, but
pre-eminently true to manhood. Oh, how
Alexander 'Mackenzie loved Canada And if
he could speak to us to -day with lips unseal-
ed it would be to urge us to fidelity in all that
would tend to develop her resources and en-
hance her glory." Taking part in the pro-
cession to the station were these representa-
tiveli of power in the Dominion : Sir John
Thompson the Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, the
Hon. Frail Smith, the Hon. j.C. Patterson,
the [Ion. Wilfred Laurier,Sir Richard Cart-
wright, Sir Donald Smith, the Hon. David
Mills, the Hon. James Young and countless
other well-known public men. The pall-
bearers were the Hon. Edward Blake, the
Hon. Oliver Mowat, the Hon. G. W. Ross,
the Hon, G. W. Allan, Justice Burton, Jus-
tice Maclennan, Sir Richard Cartwright, the
Hon. T. W. Anglin, J. L. Blaikie, Robert
Jaffray, T. C. Irving and Major Gregg.
Many of those in the Toronto funeral wept
ap with the body to Sarnia to take part in
Thursday's proceedings.
AN ABSCONDING BROKER.
he was "made of money " ; and to bear this
out it is known that on a rise in wheat a year
ago he pocketed $60,000 in three days.
Brown was net a high -roller, unless the pos-
session of an occasional box at the theatre
and a neat little dog -cart could be so con-
strued. Judge Senkler's chance glance over
the Montreal Bank stockholders' list wrought
wonderful thirties, of a verity! Only for
that Arthur Brown would not now be bask-
ing in Mexican sunshine.
There is promise of much litigation to fol-
low. The Bank of Montreal, for instance,is
said t� have had the broker in a room by
themselves for a profitable two hours of the
very day he skipped out. It all depends
upon the facte,kept very close as yet,whether
others will have room fer action against the
bank for caging Brown and making him dis-
gorge enough to make their account straight,
leaving the rest to take their chances. Very
likely a statement from these officials.will
come,but in the meantime the opinion seems
to be very hard against their action. Among
the victims are a host of men who take flying
shots at Chicago or New York _"good things.'
The general drops in stocks and markets bas
caused heavy margining and of course
Brown's customers, many of them, are crip-
pled, although the prejudice against specu-
lation on the semi -bucket -shop plan is enough
to kefp them vet* silent. A display of the
ledgers in the Jordan -street office would
minimize bank credit for many business -men.
in town. Nothing more has been heard of
the quest of F. Coleman for the missing
man. Mr. Coleman started in hot chase af-
ter him and $20,000 which he thinks he
wants much more than the broker.
ANOTHER RASCAL CAUGHT.
The ingenious Richard Rudd Dent, who
passed himself off as a son of Col. Denison,
the Police Magistrate,in Menehester,to such
effect, has been taking his dose from the
Colonel this week. The news of his arrest
in Toronto had brought to town several for-
mer victims in the States, the last arrival
being Henry Platts,of Roger City,Michigan.
Dent went to Roger city, and,by giving out
that he was about to start a bank there, ob-
tained $300 from him and much more from
the county sheriff and others. The identi-
fication in this and in the Syracuse case,
where Dent traveled as Dr. Dene, is perfect.
For Dent's highly impudent proceeding in
using the Denison family name, suspicion
eaists of a deal of satisfaction on the Col-
onel's part, as he found evidence enough
against the prisoner to commit him to trial
011 the charge of defrauding Mine Host Matt
Evans of $3,000. Dent is accused of having
got this money from Evans for the purpose
of purchasing apples, but no apples were
eveispurchased.
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOvE, ETC.
James Briny/tine& Yonge-street hardware
merchant,gay and hearty in his white-beired
age as ever he was in youth, put his foot in
it when he attempted to carry out the dying
wish of his wife, and marry her niece, a
Miss Jennie Noxon, of No. 227 Logan Ave-
nue. If this young lady had not decided
that she needed $5,000 ail balm for her in-
jured feelings, and to that end has brought
an action, the public would never have
known of the interesting events leading up
to the rupture between age and beauty. The
marriage was to have been celebrated on
Good Friday, despite the protests of Mr.
Brimstin's grown-up family. He wanted to
do as he had promised his wife, and only
turned back at the last minute, because it
came to his ears that Miss Noxoa had told
hie daughter that after the marriage she was
going to rule the Brimstin homestead. As
an extra persuader, Miss Brimstin, who is
23 years old, threatened to leave her family
if the marriage took place. And this is
why a no longer youthful merchant in hard-
ware regrets having written to his lady -love
endless letters teeming with epithets fit to
be classified as software.
POLITICAL.
The nominations for the vacancy in the
representation in the looal legislature caused
by the death of H. E. Clark took place on
Friday. Peter Ryan, returning officer, pre-
sided, and there was a fair attendance of
electors. All four candidates were nomi-
nated, viz.: II. A.' E. Kent, as a straight
Conservative candidate, nominated by E. R.
Shepard, one of the candidates for the Con-
servative nomination; N. G. Bigelow, Q.C.,
as straight Reform candidate, nominated by
Dr. Ogden; Philips Thompson, as Inde-
pendent Labor candidate, and E. A, Mac-
donald, on the platform of political union
with the United States. The candidates
were allowed five-minute speeches, but all
exceeded thellimit. Meeirs.Kent and Bige-
low were received cordially by their friends
and were not annoyed by their opponents.
Mr. Thompson was heard quietly, but ex-
cited no enthusiasm. Mr. Macdonald was
received with hisses and cheering and his
speech was continually broken up with in-
terjections and interrnptions until half way
on, when he was quietly heard. The elec-
tion takes place next Friday. The straight
Conservative candidate is almost certain to
be elected.
Robert McGreAy Returns From
The city was thrown into a great state of
excitement last week on its becoming known
that Mr, Arthur Brown, a prominent young
broker in this city, had taken his departure
to parts unknown. It was generally sup-
posed that he was making money. It now
turns out, however, that he is a defeulter to
the amount of over $100,000, and that he
has added to his other irregularities, for-
geries for large amounts. In fact he has
been keeping himself afloat for years by
using other people's names in this way with-
out their consent, and but for a mere acci-
dent he might have gone on in this way for
some time yet. It seems that Judge Sen-
kIer held some shares in the Montreal Bank.
A Het of the stockholders of that institution
accidentally fell into his hands, and as a
matter of curiosity,he scanned it over to see
who besides himself were fortunate enough
to be possessed of Bank of Montreal shares,
His surprise may be imagined when he fail-
ed to find his own name in the list. He
thought, however, that it was an omission
in the print, and applied to the bank auth-
orities to have it rectified. They told him
that his stock had all been taken up, and
showed him where the shares had been
transferred to the bank and the money paid
for therm It ultimately transpired that the.
transactien had been carried out by Broker
Brown; that he had forged Judge Sinkler's
name, and having sold the stock got the
money for it. The bank authorities at once
collared him and made him disgorge. This
was the breaking of the first link in the
chain, and before any more of his rascalities
could get out,he picked up and left the city
and is now said to be in Mexico.
Ever since his flight last week the name of
Arthur Brown has been on everyone's lips.
Tall, good-looking, jovial, the departed bro-
ker had a whole army of acquaintances. As
a son of Mr.Gordon Brown and a nephew of
the lete Hon. George Brown, he naturally
was sought after eagerly by society people,
which, no further back than last year, had
been congratulating him upon his marriage
with one of Ottawa's- fairest daughters. To
outsiders the charge that Brown had been
guilty of forgery came like a thunder -clap.
For one thing he was one of the foremost
brokers in town, and a belief prevailed that
GIVES
e .
HIMSELF UP AND IS SENT TO PRISON
FOR ONE YEAR.
Robert McGreevy, whose name is. now
familiar to our readers, returned to Quebec
from New York last week and placed him-
self in the hands of the authorities. He
was taken before the court to receive sen -
tence for the crime of conspiracy proven
against him before leaving the country a few
months ago. Mr. McGreevy's expected ap-
pearance in court brought out an immense
crowd of people. The judge sentenced him
to gaol for one year, remarking that only for
his running away he would have been sen-
tenced to six months.
Prior to the pessing of the sentence the
prisoner appealed to the judge for clemency.
HIS OFFENCE,
The offence for which Robert 'McGreevy
is sentenced is conspiracy with his old com-
panion 0. E. Murphy, to defraud Michael
Connolly, of the firm of Larkin, Connolly &
Co., of $400,000. When Murphy quarrelled
with Thos. McGreevy and the Connollys he
entered into a campaign against them. One
of his aseaults took the form of an attempt
to recover upon the note for $400,000. It
was in 1885 that this note was prepared and
signed. At that time Murphy and Michael
Connolly were on good terms. According to
Michael Connolly's story the two were sitting
in the counting home drawing notes and
cheques for fabulous sums. Murphy wrote
a -variety of fictitious obligations,which were
destroyed, and Michael prepared one for
$400,000, which Murphy placed in his poeket
and held for future reference. During all
the time that the friendship continued the
$400,000 note was in hiding, but shortly
after the quarrel in the course of which it
was announced that Murphy should receive
no more contracts from the Government out
came the note, and an effort was made to
collect upon it. The mane adopted to
secure payment were somewhat novel.
Murphy did not present it himself; but, on
the contrary, sold it to Robert McGreevy for
$1,000. This money WAS not paid by Robert
in cash, but notes were given for $750 and a
cheque upon a bank in which Robert had no
money on deposit was given for the balance.
The $400,000 note, of course, had to be en-
dorsed over to Robert. Murphy, however,
seems to have made the transfer with a
proper degree of cunning, for accompanying
his endorsement were the words "without
recourse." Thus, if Robert was unable to
collect from Michael he was not to be in a
position to turn upon Murphy and attempt
to collect from him. When the note was
presented to Michael it was promptly re-
pudiated. Then suit was entered, and
Murphy was called upon to furnish a bill of
particulars. This bill covered all the profits
Michael was supposed to have made out of
the Larkin, Connolly & Co., contracts. It
called for $36,000 profits said to have been
realized by Michael out of the Levis dock
works, $51,000 profits out of the Esquimalt
dock, $100,000 profits out of the cross -wall,
and $85,000 profits out of the south wall.
Thus Murphy,having enjoyed his own share,
wanted to acquire Michael's also. But the
figures used by Murphy_ were far in ad-
vance of Michael's profits as discovered by
the privileges Committee. They include
also the profits of Nicholas Connolly
and de salaries which Michael and Nicholas
drew. A fatal flaw in the bill of particulars
was that it called, in respect of the south
wall, - for the liquidation of a supposed
liability incurred in 1887, which was two
years after the $400,000 note was drawn.
Finding that it was impossible to collect
from Michael the suit against him was aban-
doned. But Michael had Murphy and
Robert McGreevy arrested for conspiracy to
defraud, with the result that both were
found guilty. Murphy at once escaped to
New York, and Robert McGreevy followed
him, making a midnight trip to the United
States border. Robert, who is an old man,
'however, pined for his Canadian home, and
he returned the other day, intimating that
he would rather go to gaol than remain an
exile. McGreevy is Thomas McGreevy's
brother. He was interested with Thomas in
various contracts, and Was a candidate for
the Quebec Legislature in the election of
1890.
Two -Rowed Barley.
WHAT PROFESSOR SAUNDERS SAYS ABOUT IT.
Professor Saunders, of the Dominion
Experimental Farm, has prepared his report
on the subject of two -rowed barley. He
mays :
In the anntal report of the experimental
farms for 1890 reference is made to the im-
portation from England by the Government
of a large lot of one of the best varieties of
two -rowed barley for seed, which was sold
to farmers at less than the cost of importa-
tion, in order to thoroughly test the value
of this grain in all parts of the Dominion.
It is there stated that a shipment of 50
quarters, 400 English bushels, of the barley
grown from that seed, weighing about 52
lbs. per bushel, had been forwarded to
London, England, to be malted. and brewed
by one of the leading brewers there. This
barley consisted of five or six lots, grown in
different parte of Ontario. It was all
forwarded to Ottawa, where the barley was
thoroughly cleaned and mixed under my
supervision, and the small kernels and as
much as possible of the broken grain re-
moved by passing it through a sizer or body
machine, so that the sample , was fairly uni-
form in character.
THE MALWIERS' OPfNION.
The following report was received in Oc-
tober last by the High Commissioner of
Canada through Mr. A. F. Dale. It con-
tains the result of the brewing of this barley
conducted at the brewery of Mr. J. Finn,
of Bishops Stortford, Eogland, and the re-
port is signed by Mr. Arthur 0. Stopes, of
Colchester:
" Ifitcompliance with you request I have
pleasure in stating to you my opinion of the
sample of malt sent me an the 23rd May
last, which I understand was made ex-
clusively from Canadian barley sent you by
the Dominion Government.
"From careful examination of this malt,
and from information furnished me by
brewers well acquainted with the use of
Canadian malt in the Dominion, and also
from suggestions made by the well-known
brewery expert, Mr. Frank Faulkner, I felt
justified in using this malt xclusively with-
out any mixture of other m
preyed its brewing qualiti
its own merits, and to test
possible, I brewed a pale
though I fear the colour
than I generally get from
English or European barley
"The brewing worked e
the handling of the goods in
they spent, inditiating from
the quality of the malt.
stage followed in proper seg
ingly good form ; the ferme
Its. I therefore
s entirely upon
it as severely as
le from it, al-
e a little .higher
malt made from
.
o ily, and I liked
tun and the way
he initial stages
Each successive
nenoe in exceed-
- was prac-
tically perfect, and the condition of the beer
at racking was exceedingly k. ood. The final
attenuation also was just as II wished, and as
a consequence I think the brewing opera-
tions were those well ada ted to the malt,
and it must have been of 1 good quality to
have given such satisfactory; results at every
stage. I' ‘\ ,
"The stability I have proved to be ex:'
ceedingly good, indicating soundness of
material.
" The extract was equivalent to 87 lbs. per
quarter; and coupling all the preceding facts
with the judgment I formed of the malt,
irrespective of its use, I assay its value 35s.
to 36s. per quarter. I maY say that had I
wished to obtain a greater extract, so as to
attain the maximum amOunt possible, I
could readily have inereasedi it, but I deemed
it under the circumstance, preferable to
secure quality rather than qnantity.
"The beer after racking bas remained en-
tirely satisfactory, and the l very numerous
people who have tasted it have been almost
without exception of opinifm that it is ex-
ceedingly good.
"Should you wish to have fuller and more
complete notes of a more 1 technical class,
either as to .the nature of the water em-
ployed in the brewing, and of the malt it-
self, I shall be happy to place them at your
disposal. I aseume the above report is
sufficient for your present purposes, and I
have much pleasure in test fying as a practi-
cal brewer to the value that good malt of
this class would prove to l the brewers who
understood its nue.
"October, 1891."
This report is highly I satisfactory, and
shows that good two -rowed barley, such as
will meet the approval! of the English
brewer, can. be grown in
samples, ranch better in q
than this shipment refer
received of late at the
from farmers in Ontari
1891.
Favorable reports as to
barley have been received
and it is the general opini
The buye s in the barley districts in On-
tario paid up to the close of navigation from
8 to 12 o nts more per bushel for the two -
n was offered for the six -rowed ;
ny instancee no care seems to have
n to grade the purchases, but light
y, bright and discoloured lots,
mixed together, making a very
rowed th
but in m
been tak
and hea
were all
uneven sample. Much broken grain was
also founid in some lots. The returns re-
ceived for some of the shipments are said to
have beep very uneatiefe.ctory,having result-
ed in lose to the shippers. This disappoint-
ment, however, is clearly traceable to want
of care in threshing, cleaning, and grading
the grain. The fault lies partly with the
farmer, who must exercise more care in
handling this crop if it is to briug him its
full value. In a letter written by a practi-
cal Canadian maltster who recently visited
England in connection with the barley
business of his firm, he says, when referring
to the disappointing sales :—" Shippers
have not kept faith with the brokers or
purchasers as to quality, the bulk was not
equal to the sample." Again, "Alt brewers
who saw the Government farm samples at
the brewera' exhibition were charmed
with them, and millions could have been
sold, but the general crop did not equal the
samples. I may say that unless the Can-
adian barley can be threshed so as to avoid
the large proportion of half and broken
grains, which cause excessive mould r the
floors, the trade won't materialize. Al Eng-
lish malsters agree on this point." This
gentleman speaks quite hopefully of the
Canadian six -rowed barley for the English
market, and says it is beginning to find
favor with several maltstere who have tried
it.
Other Canadian dealers speak more hope-
fully of the two -rowed barley trade, One
says "The two -rowed barley we have
handled this mason, grown from English
seed, has given us the best of satisfactien,and
I believe that all that has gone forward to
the Old Country would have done likewise
had it not been badly mixed."
Another buyer who visited Englend in
connection with his barley business writes :
"In November sales were made in Great
Britain by sample to arrive of both two -row-
ed and six -rowed. The former was received
with much favor by maltsters ; the latter did
not attract much attention. I am not, how-
ever, surprised that the demand for export
has fallen off, for many sales were filled with
shipments quite inferior to the sample; the
resiilt was disappointment and reeentment
on the part of the receivers." He says;
further: "It is a mistake to suppose that the
English maltster does not require colour;
he does, and the bright sample will in every
case take the market there, as in the United
States. I desire to impress strongly on
farmers the necessity of growing from pure
seed, and in harvesting and threshing to
carefully avoid mixing. I found a very kind-
ly feeling expressed towards Canada, and a
marked desire to trade with her. I am con-
vinced that if we can grow as good barley as
we have done this year, and if it is kept
pure, we will work into a good trade with
the English masters."
Enough has, I think, been said to show
that if the Canadian farmer will exercise the
requisite care in the selection of good; clean
seed, and in the cultivation of this grain,
also in threshing and cleaning it for the
market, avoiding all mixing • and if tbe
shipper will see that the bulk of l the grain he
sends is equal to the samples forwarded,
there seems no reason to doubt that a satis-
factory trade in two -rowed barley can be
established. The maltster in Great Britain
is willing to pay a good price for a firet-class
article. .
The Salvation Army in New
York.
(By "The Spectator" in The Christian Union.)
The Spectator was admitted to a parlor
Salvation Army meeting, and had his eyes
opened. This was no new experience to the
Spectator, as it is almost a daily occurrence.
The Spectator's ideas of the Salvation Army
were compounded of tambourines, drums,
ugly bonnets with red bands on them, and
red jerseys, promiscuously mixed, somewhat
after the style of the French impressionist
school., When, through the courtesy of a
very sweet woman, the Spectator wae invit-
ed to be present at a meeting conducted by
three qfficers of the Salvation Army, he look-
ed upon it as a means of widening his men-
tal horizon, and hoped to gain some definite
idea of the purpose of this body of men and
women, whose chief power, so far as his
knowlidge went, was the ability to inake a
noise. Taking a seat in the corner, he
-waited the coming of the audience; and,
being supported by two or three men, the
shy, strange feeling departed, giving him
greate
lors w
wome
Salvation Army lasses came in. A isolo of
many yerses was sung by one of them. A
secondl astonished others as well as the Spec-
tator by her statement of the forces of the
Army sworking in New York alone. There
are, she stated, 1,100 officers of the Army in
New York City and Brooklyn. Many of
these officers live with their families in
suburban towns, and are assigned to duty.
They have their seasons of rest. There is a
training -school for men, and a training-
schocl for women ; 'the one for men being
located at Paterson, the one for women at
Broadway and Forty-fifth street. The
principal training given at these schools re
by studying the students, as the speaker
put it, to watch and see that they do not
lope their temper, and that they are, willing
to do disagreeable work. Personal testi-
mony followed, and then the captain of the
slumming division, a woman whose race im-
pressed the Spectator with the strength of
character and the spiritual elevation of her
soul, gave briefly an outline of her work.
The slumming division is located in what
is known as the darkest ward, and on what
some consider the darkest block on the face
of the earth. Two women went there to
live. They adopted the habits of the people
about,them by living in two room, doing
their own work. wearing calico dresses,
aprons, nondescript straw hats, and shawls
about their shoulders ; without anything to
indicate that they were connected
organization. The one distinction
anada, and many
ality and heavier
ed to, have been
xperimental farm
, the growth of
he yield of the
from every hand,
n that the crop
of the two -rowed has averaged muck better
than the six -rowed. Many reports of yields
of 40 to 50 bushels per aerie have been receiv-
ed from different points i4 Ontario,although
some of the samples sent in have been
light in weight and Much discoloured.
mental libeity. The pleasant par -
re soon filled with a body of refined
. At the specified hour the three
tress and pillows without sheets, and cov-
ered by an old coverlet, lay a man of over
eixty, who, in spite of sufferin , of hunger,
of moral degradation, still bare traces of a
far different manhood, Beside him sat a
woman two or three years younger, in a
drunken stupor, but holding his hand;
even in her semi-conscious condition giving
expression to her love and her fear of the
coming separation—a love and a fear that
even drunkenness could not islet out. The
room was cold ; a broken pitcher, the
crusty end of a loaf of bread,:told what the
last meat had been. A deecent to the visi-
tors' own coal -bin, and another climb up the
stairs, soon changed the temperature of the
room. It was swept and scrubbed. Food
was prepared for the sick man, who was too
ill to be moved in order to Make him any
more cornfortable. A cot 1 and mattress
were brought, on to which, after a short
sleep, he was removed. Strong coffee roused
the faculties of the wife. This was only the
beginning of many visits.
The story can be told in a few words. A
good trade had supported this couple in
comfort at the beginning of their married
life. Thrift had put them in the possession
of a little capital. A store had been start-
ed, to which the wife gave her care and at-
tention, until increased capital and increas-
ed business demanded that the hueband
should give his entire time to it. Years
of success and happiness; unfortunate in-
vestment of a little surplus; failure of the
little business; impossibility of getting back
at his old trade; sickness; discouragement
—drink. F'erhaps the secret of their down-
fall lies in the sentence of the wife. "Ton
see, we had no fire, and it was so easy to get
warm with beer or with brandy." The
greateet fight was with the wife, whose cry
was, "Oh, what'e the use I'm only an
old scrub woman," but at last this cry was
silenced, and she faced the world, weakened
in mind apd body, but still With the hope of
being once more a respected woman. Life
ended for the husband at least in cleanli-
ness, warmth, and the consciousness of
God.
The story of the abuse to hich the meet-
ings were subjected on the p
men of the neighborhood, t
leave to the imagination; o
these meetings he will giv
One afternoon, turning the
home, one of the Salvation rmy lasses saw
staggering ahead of her a young woman, too
drunk to take care of herself; leaning against
ti
a lamp -post, and watching er, with curi-
ously mixed expreesion, wee two boys who
had given the grea,test trout
women. The lassie hnrrie
the drunken woman sank t
unable to go another step a
to the two young men as she passed them,
then raised the woman, atedied her, and
tried to find out where she lived. After a
great deal of trouble she found out the
etreet, and thought that she could find the
house by the aid of children. She started
to walk along, but the woman was so drunk
rt of the young
e Spectator will
the effect of
ene incident.
orner above her
le to these two
forward just as
the sidewalk,
one. She bowed
that it was impossible for h
,her feet; she sank down
Before she had reached the
of these young men hurri
hold of the drunken wo an's other arm,
1
while the other young man acted as a pilot,
simply saying, as he passed," I will find the
house." He waited at the door until the
drunken woman and her escorts had reached
it, and then went up to find the room in
which belonged. When she was in the care
of her friends the lassie
them, when, with faces in
sciousness of the degradeti
ith any
between
r to keep on
lad down again.
ower corner one
d up and took
urned to thank
which the con-
n they had just
witneseed was written, thy said, "That's
all right; we're your friend $."
The secret of elevating any human being
is to change Me standardre The spectator
came out of that house conscious of the wide
difference between himself and the women to
whom he had listened.
Canada.
—The Right Rev. James !Williams, D. D.,
Bishop of Quebec, died on tlhe 20th inst. He
was 67 years of age.
—The congregation of Knox church, Galt,
I purchase of a
nt to a lively
untry during the
will give $100 towards the
town bell.
—Present indications po
cattle trade with the old co
early summer months.
—Mr. Wm. Allemang, of Elmira, while
chopping wood, almost cut
by the axe striking his eho
—Nickel, lead and silve
found in abundance in the
endon, Frontenac.
—The county of Beance
lates on turning out about
of maple sugar this season.
—The name of Rev.
Waterloo, is mentioned in
the presidency of the Me
Conferenwe.
thir home and the hundreds of hales in the
block e of tenements about thewas t at theirs
e
m i
was scrupulously clean. What did they do?
Since last November they have visited eight
handred saloons between the hours of nine
and twelve o'clock. In many of them they
have Prayed, talked with the men and wo-
mend sold their " War -Cry," the official
pal of the Salvation Army, and in every
case ried to hold friendly eonvers with all
who [would talk with them. Threi evenings
of eseh week are devoted to this w rk. Who
can tell the outcome?
In the daytime they visit amqng their
neighbors. T,Jp five flights of stair S into the
garret of one of the oldest buildings in New
York they climbed one afternoon. They
had heard that there was a sick man there,
and that his wife was drunk nearly all the
time. They knocked at the door and got no
answer. Turning the knob softly, they en-
tered the room. Oa a broken bed, on a mat -
is foot in twain
ores are being
wnship of Clar-
Quebec, calcu-
,000,000 pomade
W. H. Graham,
connection with
treal Methodist
—An }electric light pole 'erected in Galt
last week is 60 feet in hiight and quite
straight,. It was procured from the farm of
Mr. James Ford, Glenmores.
—Daniel Patton, the iii ealthiest liquor
Brunswick, died
after two hours'
2,
—The Nova Scotia Houee of Assembly
has paseed a bill extendi g the term of
municipal councils from two to three
years. 1
—Mr'. Graham Welke , of Ilderton,
breeder and importer of ncoln sheep, has
rented ;lockside grazing fa m,London town-
ship, from Mr. M. Fergus() , of Birr.
—Mr' D. McRae, of Ild rten, has had a
great nthn of luck this spring. One of his
merchant of St. John, New
there laSt Sunday evening,
illness, of apoplexy, aged 5
turned home, unknown to his wife, and hay- trier with them, leaving in the fall and re-
ing secreted himself under the kitchen table, turning each epring. About three weeks ago
opened fire upon her with a five -chambered one of the girls was outside the house when
revolver and shot her three times, killing it made its appearance and alighted on her
per almost instantly. Teundy was :arrested shoulder, this making tbe third spring it
soon afterward. Be says he only regrets he has returned to its home. It would be in -
was not left alone till he etompleted the trag- .teresting to know where it goes in the fall
edy by taking bis own life. He said he bad and how it subsists through the -winter. The
been living in jealousyor twenty years, and first summer it learned to speak a few
thought he would end tie matter. He has, words, but has evidently forgotten most of
it is reported, been drinking heavily lately, them and does not learn any more.
and was thought to be. reientally unsound. —Mr. J. W. Sandison, the mammoth
—It ie reported that the bands of the grain farmer of Brandon, Manitoba, is put -
Berlin aed Waterloo musical societies have ting 6,300 acres under crop tilis year, of
been engaged to play during Canadian which 2,800 acres will be in wheat, and
week at the Chicago World's Fair, and that 1,600 acres are up to date seeded. As soon
they will receive $1,000 and expenses. as the seeding is finished Mr. Sandison will
—Hore,ce Talbot, the dismissed clerk of begin work on a new ferm, consisting of
the Department of Public Works who was te 2,600 acres, in the Souris district. The land
have been tried at the present assizes in will be broken up this year, ready for crop -
Ottawa for defrauding the Government, has ping next season.
fled to the United States. —About six months ago Wm. Brown, an
—The P anadian Pacific Railway steam- r adopted son of Mr. Edward Brown, of
ship, Empress of India, from Japan, has Waterdown, near Hamilton, disappeared
reached Vancouver, British Columbia, with from Chicago, where he was then working.
541 Chhthe emigrants on board. There was The young man, when last seen by one of
gonuaercaansteiLfd.smallpox on the steamer. It was his comrades, had some $50 -on his person.
„ A few days ago the poor fellow's body was
--Whiie Charles Leslie,night superintend- found floating in Lake Michiga,a, but no
ent of the Bell telephone in Montreal, was money or valuables were discovered on
inepecting some wires on the roof of the him. Detectives are supposed to be in.
,
Exchange buildings on Wednesday night, vestigating the case.
last week, he fell to the ground, e distance—A few days ago John W. Murray, chief
's
of 75 feet, and was killed. of the Ontario detective force, arrested at
— The cream horse which played so im- Minneapolis, Minnesota, E. G. Morton, who
portant a part in the Bertram alibi at the it is claimed is a swindler of the first water.
Heelop murder trial, has been acquired by The specific charge on which he was cap -
Mr. L. Heyd, Brantford, who took it in part tuned, and on_which he is held for extradi-
payment!of lawyer's fees for the defense. tion, is the obtaining of $1,090 from G. W.
—Tbretugh the instrumentality of Mrs. Scott, banker, of Listowel, Ontario'on a
Owen Hitchcox, of Paris, a fine lodge of forged draft. It is presumed that Morton
Good Templars has been organized at Ni- will make a determined fight against extra -
agars Falls and one at Grimbsy. At the dition.
the pledge since November. , morning at the advanced age of 88 years.
—Mrs. David Smuck died last Friday
latter place about1,000 people have signed
—The Convention of the Ontario teachers, She was one of the oldest residents of Glen
-
held in Toronto last week, closed on Thurs.- ford. Her husband Will be 94 yeaes in
day, after revising the constitution so as to May next. They had been married over
allow separate school teachers and trustees 50 years. Over a year ago she fell and
to become members. Mr. S. B. Sinclair, broke her arm, and bad just nicely recov-
of Hamilton, was elected president. ered from that when she was unfortunate
—The Hon. C. F. Fraser, Provincial enough to fall again and break her leg, and
Ministerof Public Works, returned to had not been.able to leave her bed much
Toronto en Friday from his long sojourn in since.
the south in search of better health. The —A -farm house and contents on the Sth
honorable gentleman has immensely bene- concession of Sombra township, county of
fitted by the change. Lambton, owned and occupied by john
— Ex -F. remier Mercier has sufficiently re- Powers, was destroyed by fire the other
covered from his illness to go to his office. night. Powers and his family barely es -
He does not expoct the proceedings in court caped. A little boy of three years was
against him will be very lengthy. Not more badly burned about the face and legs. A
than six,witnesses, he thinks, will be sum- hired man, with whom he was sleeping,
moped to give evidence against him. threw the boy out tbrough a window, and
—Seven young men from Lynden were then escaped through the flames himself.
find $10 each, the other day, in the Ham- The loss on, building is covered by insurance
ilton Police Court, for being present at the in the Citizen's Company.
Vansiekle cock fight lately, and another, —Mr. John McGillivray, of Nottawasaga
,who wed fined $20, says he has had enough township, Simcoe county, whose death oc-
of sport now for the rest of his life. curred a few days ago came to Canada in
1 —Patrick Durant,wbo last week at Brook- 1848 from Argyle:hire, Scotland, and
ville pleeded guilty to a criminal assault settled in Simcoe county. He continued
upon two little girls near Algonquin, was to reside there till his death on Thursday
sentenced to one year and 360 days in the morning at the age of 80 years. His surviv-
Central Prison and to receive, twenty lashes. ing sons are Rev. Alex. McGillivray, of
Durant is only 17 years of age. Boner Presbyterian church, Toronto; Bev.
—Lumbermen in New Brunswick are dia: Malcolm McGillivray, Chalmer's church,
couraged over the outlook at present, the Kingston; Captain McGillivray', 48th High-
water in the streams in the Provinces being binders, and Rev. John McGillivray, of
lower than it has been for fifteen years. Queen's University.
Several millions of logs are hung up, and the —On Monday night last week the Rev.
lose enteiled by the enforced idleness is very Mr. Learoyd, of Windsor, was called from
great. . the service that Was going on in the church
1 —The difficulty experienced in crossing to marry a couple that was in waiting in the
I the Saskatchewan river created by the parsonage. There were five persons in the
. breaking up of the ice, has presented un- party, and after the knot had been tied the
1 pleasant alternatives to settlers bound for mother of tbe bride said that there was not
the Edmonton district. The hotels are un- a dollar in the entire crowd, and the
able to eupply the required accommodation, minister would have to look elsewhere for
and the settlers have been compelled to re- his pay. Mr. Learoyd *Jays he has married
main in the railway cars or go into camp. hundreds of couples, but this one started off
—The New Highland regiment, of Toronto in the poorest circumstances of any that he
(48th Highlanders), held their first church ever knew.
parade on Sunday to St. Andrew's Church —Island Constable Ward is carrying on a
King street west, where the annual sermon vigorous crueade against individuals who
was preached by the chaplain, Rev. D. J. are fishing illegally in Toronto and Ash-
Macdonnel. The men were about 240 bridge's Bays with nets. A few mornings
strong. : The parade was witnessed by ago at daybreak he swooped down upon
thousands. . Ashbridge's bay and seized 1,200 yards of
—Acording to a Hamilton dispatch Mrs. net. Wbile he WAS lifting tbe net a man
James, Balfour, wife of a leading architect rowed from the far shore and threatened to
of that City, has compromised herself and. shoot him. Warn has summoned several
left the city, turning over her property to , other men for violating the Fisheries Act,
her husiband, in trust for her five children. and also for duck -shooting out of season.
A stable boy named Frank, employed by —Mr. Minhinnick,of the London Humane
the family, is said to be the sharer in her Society, has recently investigated a case of
offense.cruelty to cattle, a few miles east of the
1
—Mims Gertrude Sinclair, daughter of the city), which is the worst that has yet come
late Jinlige Sinclair, of Hamilton, wad mar- under his notice. A herd of twenty young
ried on Wednesday, last week, to IMr. Ed- cattle in a field showed signs of very im-
win H. iCarr, of the Bank of Montreal. The proper attendance, while in the barn he
wedding was a private one, only the im- found four others so weak from apparent
mediate friends of the contracting parties starvation as not to be able to rise. Two
being present. The service was performed veterinary sergeons were called to examine
by Rev. E. P. Crawford. them, and found that the flesh was festered
—Melacbi Sager, a very old and respected and apparently rotting. The animals were
resident of Beverly township, 95 years of covered with sores. It was thought neces-
age, died at the residence of his son-in-law, sexy to kill them.
near Troy, on Tuesday night last week. Mr. —Last Friday in Toronto two brothers
Sager retired in his usual health', but in the named Lucas, aged respectively 11 and 8,
morning when his daughter went into his and Henry Prittie, aged 15, were playing in
room she found that during the night he had a sand pit in the northwestern part of the
city when, without a moment's warning, it
pa—sseTdbeawgaeyneral committee having charge of caved in on them. The three were -corn-
arrangements for the centennial celebration pletely buried by the earth. A fourth lad
ef the proclamation of the constitution of started for help, but was so horror struck
Upper Canada, have decided that the event that he lost his presence of mind, and save -
should be commemorated at Niagara on ral minutes passed before he made anyone
July f 6th, and that any supplementary- aware of what had happened. All haste
celebration at Toronto in September would was then made and the three boys were
receive the support of the committee. taken out fifteen minutes after they were
—0e Thusday, last week, a speoial train buried, but it was too late—life was ex -
of eighteen cars, loaded with square timber, tinct.
left Forest for Hamilton, from which point —John Charles Collier died at Point
it will be shipped to England. The eigh- Edward, a few days ago, at the age of 56
teen cars were loaded in six hours. Most years. He was born in Middlesex, where
of the timber was bought in Warwick and he lived until a young MAD, when he and.
Plympton by John Attwood for the firm the family moved to Sarnia. He afterwards
that is doing tbe shipping. went to Thamesville, where he engaged sae-
- Mrs. George Teach, sr., one of Platts- cessfully in mercantile business for many
villa's oldest residents, died in Detroit on years. During the oil excitement he moved
Monday, last week, at the residence of her to Petrolea, and, like a great many others,
sister, whom she was visiting. Mrs. Veitch saw his savings "suddenly disappear in a
leaves three children. Wm. Veitch, drug- hole." Twelve years ago he was appointed
gist, of Plattsville, • George, late merchant to a position in the customs at Point Ed -
at Heysville, now living in Toronto, and ward, where he has since resided. Five
Mrs. George Sauers, who moved from Patts- years ago he was made a sub-sollector,whioh
ville to the Pacific coast last summer, position he occupied until his death. He
— Otto Klotz, of Preston, Waterloo was a very popular officer with all having
county, who for 53 years has served as to do business with the customs.
school;trnstee, and who was president of the —Mr. Cuthbert, living near Sweaborg,
Prestdn Mechanics' Institute for the past relates ..good story that happened between
twenty years, was, a few days ago,presented 40 and 60 years ago. At that time the only
with an oil portrait of himself, at Preston. threshing machine to be had was an old
Mr. Miller, Deputy Minister of Education, open cylinder which, being exposed to the
representing the Hon. Mr, Ross, Minister,' weather, kept it almost constantly out of re -
was present. pair, especially the horse power. Mr.
—Messrs. John Charlton, M. P, of Lyne- Cuthbert says 0I1 one occasion the threshers
doch ; H. M. Gillette, Benjamin Beutell, of arrived and staked the old machine to be
Bay City, Michigan; Peter C. Smith, -of ready for the morning. Sheep No, 1 Wag
West Bay City, Michigan; Michael Flem- slaughtered for the occasion. .After about
ing and Charles Mills Garvey, of Sarnia, two bushels of wheat bad been threshed the
are seeking incorporation as the Routell frame of the horse power went to pieces.
Towing and Wrecking Company (Limited), Of course new timbers had to be got outand
with headquarters at Sarnia and a capital of put in the -iron work. No threshing that
day, but sheep No. 2 was killed. Next day,
everything was in readiness, for a big day's
work, but after threshing about two more
bushels one of the pulleys broke, which took
the rest of the day to repair. Sheep No, 3
was slain, and by the time the threshing was
done no lees than five sheep had been killed
for the men and Mr. Cuthbert had to pay
back to his neighbors upwards of 40 days
work,
cowa give birth to triplets
heavy mares had a fine pai
—Miss Jessie Alexander
ed elocutionist has gone te New York to
fill some important engagenients. She will
spend the summer in Britain and on the
continent.
—For a nickel mining property near St.,
Stephen, New Brunswick; the owner has
refused $20,000. He wants $130,000 and a
guarantee that operations yvill be begun at
once. 1 _
—Mr. John Rose, of Adjala, Simeoe
county', owns the most pro Mc flock of sheep
we haye ever heard of. This spring hie
28 ewes gave birth to 45 lambs, and they
are all thriving wonderfully well.
—Grand Master J. Rest ,Robertson wali
given a grand reception by the Masons of
Port Arthur on Wednes ay evening, last
week, finishing with a banquet at the
Northern hotel.
—Mr. Harry Sneyd, of the Merchant's
Bank, Galt, accompanied by Mr. Smith, of
Guelph, and several young gentlemen from
Toronto, made the trip frbin Elora to Paril3°
by canoe on Sunday and Monday, 17th and
18th insts. ,
—If rain does not come soon there will be $25,000.
a panic in the lumber market. In the 1um1- —At Forest Home, near Orillia, four
bering districts north of Kingston the rivers years lago Mr,John Johnston caught a. young
crow which soon became domesticated and
made itself at home in and around the
house. In the following fall it disappeared,
and the next spring when the crows began
to arrive there the family were surprised to
emplocent, and was no expected back fsee their last year's pet return to the
;
while one of his
of colts.
Toronto's talent -
and streams are so low that logs cannot be
moved.
—James Lundy, a well-to-do farmer, who
moved to Brampton six months 'ago, had
been in Toronto for several days looking Mr
gsome onths. Last Fri ay evening he r',- house. Since then it has spent each, sum-